ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,320, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).
"Handling access rights for access to a physical space" was invented by Gustav Ryd (Stockholm) and Frans Lundberg (Saltsjobaden, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for handling access rights for access to a physical space (16a-g), comprising: communicating (40) with a credential (2) of a user (5), based on short-range wireless communication; determining (42) that the credential (2) does not currently have access rights to access the physical space (16a-g); finding (44) a communication address to a superior (6) to the user (5); generating (46)...